Chairing for Custom Turnouts

[Phil Chudley]

I have created a number of custom turnouts to represent LSWR turnouts, diamonds and plain track. When I turn on Chairing for one of these turnouts I get the following

The middle chairs are missing, this is not the case when I use a standard REA turnout. Not a major problem but just curious as to why there are missing chairs

All the best

Phil

 

[Terry Downes]

I have created a number of custom turnouts to represent LSWR turnouts, diamonds and plain track. When I turn on Chairing for one of these turnouts I get the following
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The middle chairs are missing, this is not the case when I use a standard REA turnout. Not a major problem but just curious as to why there are missing chairs

All the best

Phil

Hi Phil, it looks like you have a template, probably the control template, covering your background template. If You post the box file, I'll have a look.

 

[Martin Wynne]

I have created a number of custom turnouts to represent LSWR turnouts, diamonds and plain track. When I turn on Chairing for one of these turnouts I get the following
View attachment 8858
The middle chairs are missing, this is not the case when I use a standard REA turnout. Not a major problem but just curious as to why there are missing chairs

All the best

Phil

@Phil Chudley

Hi Phil,

At present only REA chairs are available in Templot plug track. Templot doesn't (yet) know anything about LSWR chairs. There are none showing for the switch section because you created a custom switch rather than use an REA switch. For the V-crossing section, customizing to a prototype is done individually in the timber shoving, so Templot doesn't know that you want this to be anything other than an REA V-crossing. The chairs showing on there are all REA chairs, not LSWR.

Full customizing of the chairs to non-REA designs will come one day, but there is still a long way to go to complete the REA designs. For K-crossings, slips and tandems, etc., and complex formations. Only plain turnouts have been done so far.

The only exception to this is that you can use loose-heel switches from the first 3 sizes in the straight switch section of the switch list. But again, the actual chairs used will be to the REA designs.

The first non-REA chairs are likely to be for GWR, but that's still a long way away.

cheers,

Martin.

 

[Phil Chudley]

Apologies for the later reply, but I was away for the weekend exhibiting at Ally Pally, London.

Many thanks for the feedback much appreciated.

Phil